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The cold plunges, the fasting, the diabetes reversal — a six-year public record of remaking a body.
Not all ideas are good ideas!
Reset Day 14: his coach caught overtraining and calorie restriction; not all ideas are good.
90% recovered. Ready for action tomorrow!
Ninety percent recovered and ready for action tomorrow.
I would share the truth. The good days, the breakthroughs, and the days when things don’t go according to pl
Reset Days 12-13: admits his report card was off and vows radical honesty.
Reset Day 11: nothing to report; he's resting.
Reset Day 11: nothing to report; he's resting.
I am officially fatigued.
Reset Day 10: officially fatigued; plans to rest and recover.
doing cardio at night tires you out. I slept like a baby.
Reset Day 9: night cardio, no alcohol, and sleep like a baby.
I’m gonna be in the shape of my life.
Reset Day 8: a long training day with a perfect report card.
An hour later, I was good as new.
Reset Day 7: overtrained with three workouts; learns to rest before injury.
My core is definitely coming in nicely.
Reset Day 6: core coming in, cold plunge discipline, and a perfect training day.
Abs are responding to the daily ab work I’m putting in.
Reset Day 5: abs responding, training hard, and a wedding in the park.
I will definitely kick that habit today
Reset Day 4: late-night eating is the villain; he commits to killing the habit.
Rinse & Repeat
Reset Day 3: a good workout, no evening drinking, and the routine starts to click.
I stayed on point all day!
Reset Day 2: VO2 max testing, cardio intervals, and a perfect day on plan.
the theme of our plan is consistency rather than too much subtraction or addition.
Reset Day 1: bloodwork, DEXA scan, and a consistency-first plan.
I owe it to myself to find out if I have it in me to finish the job I started two years ago.
Launches a 21 Day Reset to finish the transformation he started two years ago.
Chris is literally the #1 healer of cronic pain in America, if not the world.
Christopher Kidawski, his 61-year-old chronic-pain healer friend, is down 30 pounds and thriving.
Why can’t you do both?
Dreams big and takes care of health; the two feed each other.
Thank you Titus Jean & Christopher Kidawski for saving my life!
Celebrates Titus Jean's book ‘Unlimited’ and the training that transformed his health.
feeling strong feels better than almost anything money can buy.
Rejects ‘longevity’ as fear-of-death biohacking; argues for living well over living longer.
Candy bars. Processed sugar. Junk food.
Dad discharged; reflects on the junk food fueling hospital staff via the ‘Care Box’ cart.
the thing that matters most is consistency. Not perfection. Not intensity for two weeks. Consistency.
An encouragement post: consistency beats perfection; he and Lori lost 120 pounds combined.
▶ videoGetting a little bit stronger each day!
First time squatting 225 for six reps, up from barely 185 three weeks ago.
▶ videoCaption about a brutal leg day next to a much stronger training partner.
Caption about a brutal leg day next to a much stronger training partner.
A lot of people think aging means decline. I'm starting to believe it might just mean refinement, if you're wi
Eric's health update: 196 pounds, five-day lifting, and consistency as lifestyle.
It doesn't have to be intense. It just has to be intentional.
Eric details his 4 PM reset protocol of infrared sauna, cold plunge, and a sun walk.
You don't rise to your goals. You rise to your surroundings.
Eric explains he quit chasing volume and now designs standards that elevate his surroundings.
Dead lifted my body weight today for the first time in the gym.
Eric deadlifts his body weight, crediting his father for teaching him the lift.
Over the last year, I've become increasingly focused on systems, not outcomes.
Eric declares a shift from discipline to systems across health, leadership, and business.
I don't confuse strain with progress.
Eric explains high performers adjust early instead of powering through drift.
Clear thinking requires space. And space doesn't happen by accident.
Eric observes that stretched capacity first erodes decision quality, not effort.
Sustained performance is not accidental. It's engineered - quietly, intentionally, and early.
Eric argues sustained performance comes from systems and maintenance, not pushing harder.
You can't buy your way to health.
Hometown friends ask how he did it; he answers with three simple basics.
You should work out with me sometime.
Eric tells how trainer Titus changed his life, and why he made a different choice than two men who died.
Eric captions a transformation photo: 'The new me.'
Eric captions a transformation photo: 'The new me.'
Eric captions a gym session with Titus: putting in the work.
Eric captions a gym session with Titus: putting in the work.
Side-by-side transformation photo captioned 'The old me'.
Side-by-side transformation photo captioned 'The old me'.
Caption celebrating weighing what he did as a college sophomore.
Caption celebrating weighing what he did as a college sophomore.
Caption announcing he hit 50 minutes in the cold plunge.
Caption announcing he hit 50 minutes in the cold plunge.
A two-word challenge caption questioning someone's claim.
A two-word challenge caption questioning someone's claim.
Since my last test in August, I added 17.5 lbs of muscle and lost 19.5 lbs of fat mass.
Post-Europe blood work and DEXA scan: up 17.5 lbs muscle, down 19.5 lbs fat since August.
Same weight. More muscle. Better shape. Better energy.
A bathroom scale in France shows Eric still weighs 203 lbs after ten indulgent weeks.
Eric shares his detailed Paris workout log: three lifting days a week plus box jumps with the Eiffel Tower in
Eric shares his detailed Paris workout log: three lifting days a week plus box jumps with the Eiffel Tower in view.
More Energy, More Joy: The Surprising Ripple Effect of Getting in Shape
The ripple effect of getting in shape: steady energy, small wins, daily writing.
This was transformation………of the Soul.
Visual results part 2: the transformation was of the soul, not just the scale.
I’ve especially loved bragging about my streaks of doing something crazy for this many days in a row.
Visual results part 1: waist 44 to 33, jacket 60 to 53 after 80 pounds lost.
Even here in health-conscious Miami, I’m expecting this conference to be lightly attended.
At a Miami biohacking conference; recalls a 1998 live-streaming conference with Gates and Cuban.
I know how overwhelming it might sound when you hear about everything I’ve gone through this past year on my
Simplify to heal: 95% of disease roots in deficiencies, inflammation, toxins.
I’m a month away from my 55th birthday and I feel stronger, clearer, and more alive than I did in my 20s.
Thought he was just getting older; the symptoms were red flags, all now gone.
My strength trainer has helped countless people lose over 50+ pounds throughout his career as a health coach.
Transformation begins with awareness, not action; his strength trainer insight.
From D1 Dreams to 300+ lbs.
From D1 dreams to 300+ lbs and back: led his high school team in 1989.
Woke up this morning aiming for a goal.
Woke up aiming for a goal, came close but missed; on facing that moment.
I’ve hit a new level of discipline and knowledge that makes the “me” from six months ago look like a war
Officially dropped 75 pounds since his birthday last October 23rd.
Fast forward to this morning… I drop down, feeling decent but not expecting miracles and suddenly I crank ou
From 3 to 11 push-ups: the plot twist after a savage upper body workout.
Not as sexy as writing about weight loss, but equally important to my health journey is the elimination of har
Eliminating harmful toxins matters as much as weight loss on his journey.
One valuable lesson I have learned on my health journey the past ten months is that nutrition advice is full o
Ten months of health journey taught him nutrition advice is full of half-truths.
From a health perspective, that’s 25+ hours of air time and multiple time zones.
A couple days into the Miami-Hawaii work trip; assessing from a health view.
I reached out to my health guide Christopher Kidawski for suggestions.
His plan to stay on point during the first week-long trip since getting healthy.
Travel is a big part of my life, so if I desire to continue to put my health first, which I do, I need to lear
Off to Hawaii for work, not vacation; travel is part of life and the discipline.
That day I learned that my blood sugar was 655 and if I did not come in I likely would have likely suffered a
Seven years ago today he collapsed and his wife rushed him to the ER.
Woke up to my goal of 210 lbs this morning!
Woke up at the 210 lbs goal; started the push May 1st.
Interesting development on my health journey.
Off the sugar diet and now intermittent fasting; an interesting health development.
Recently, I have become hyper aware of something that was pretty deep in my subconscious that my health journe
Hyper-aware of something deep in his subconscious surfaced by the health journey.
I have learned that experimentation of how different approaches to food consumption and their resulting impact
Day 40: concludes the experiment early, retitling it the 40-Day Sugar Only Experiment.
Turning to starches to settle my insides after a bought with diarrhea was not an enjoyable experience yesterda
Day 39: starches to settle his insides after diarrhea; not enjoyable.
This being said, I am faithfully implementing modifications that should bring me back to having high energy an
Day 38: introducing white rice to heal his insides; day has not gone well.
Day 37 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Day 37: body freaked out; possible norovirus during travel.
Day 36 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Fast
Day 36: reintroduced lean red meat for a quick reset; results after two nights.
His prescription is to enjoy some lean protein for dinner the next three consecutive nights.
Days 33-35: blood sugar and weight numbers turned the wrong direction.
They are the days that I suffer.
Day 31: committed to regular strength training weeks before the diet began.
Day 30 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Day 30: halfway point of the sugar-only diet.
It is sometimes difficult to find anything that everyone agrees on in the health industry, but the below list
Day 28: cooking at home requires good ingredient choices.
Day 27 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Day 27: biggest takeaway challenges conventional Type-2 diabetes wisdom.
Discipline breeds consistency.
Day 26: still at it; discipline breeds consistency breeds results.
“Your body is reacting to the healthy changes it has endured these last three weeks ftom easting primarily o
Day 25: a strange anomaly appeared on the glucose monitor graph.
My health guide Christopher Kidawski and I had a great conversation about what is happening to my body as a re
Day 24: a great conversation with health guide Christopher Kidawski.
I am having really life like dreams involving high level problem solving.
Day 23: reports back on whether a recommended supplement worked.
Hit a lovely milestone this morning!
Day 22: a lovely milestone since starting the health journey last October.
Is discipline a problem for you?
Day 20: asks if discipline is a problem; stumbled into self-awareness a year ago.
In review, 70 to 99 is considered healthy.
Day 19: shares a continuous glucose monitor reading upon waking.
Day 18 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Day 18: more gains in weight and blood sugar.
As I always do when I hit a roadblock on my health, I reached out to my Health Guide Christopher Kidawski t
Day 17: blood sugar improving, weight dropping, plus an incredible insight.
Back to my normal daily health routine.
Day 16: back to the normal health routine, off the couch.
Days 13, 14, 15 of my 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Days 13-15: emerging from five days of sickness fog.
Sick but found a good Netflix series to watch.
Sick but found a good Netflix series to watch.
Day 12 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Day 12: the virus prediction came true; down for a few days.
Day 11 of My 60 Day Sugar Only Fast
Day 11: wakes with a throat tickle, hopes it is detox.
My conclusion thus far is that I was eating too many healthy fats and that eliminating them all temporarily ha
Day 10: after nine days, abdominal distention is officially gone.
Day 9 of my 60 Day Sugar Only Diet
Day 9: first true test at a Palm Beach dinner with friends.
Neither of us wants to undo a good week of weight loss from healthy eating and strength training, but we also
Day 8: rewarded with another pound lost.
I now have new knowledge that should enable me to get unstuck and reduce ths average to a healthier result.
Day 7: completes week one; shares learnings from the experiment.
My goal weight is a very healthy 210 but happy to return to the 220’s!
Day 5: blood sugar at 8x before bed; more incredible results.
My blood sugar clocked a very low and healthy 88.
Day 4: mornings are exciting for measuring progress.
Give that my health advChristopher Kidawskiawski warned me that this would happen, I did not panic.
Day 3: curious about morning blood sugar scores.
I see food as medicine now, so I enjoy learning how to make it as healthy as possible before putting it in my
Day 2 of the sugar-only fast; reflects on food prep and time.
Pictured below, my last normal meal for two months consisted of a grassfed steak and two eggs for protein, 1/2
Day 1 of the 60-day sugar-only diet; weighed in at 233 lbs.
Third, I dropped my daily blood sugar scores from 120+ to under 100 on the regular (77 to 99 is considered hea
Teases another extreme health journey about to begin.
As you guys know, I started taking my health very seriously last year.
Health is now the #1 daily priority; shares blood work results.
At the Miami International Fitness Expo.
At the Miami International Fitness Expo.
One, re-establishing my health daily routines that got me in such good shape living in Miami for the first tim
A slow two weeks re-establishing health routines after the sprint of last year.
Started my new calisthenics routine yesterday as designed by my guy Christopher Kidawski.
Started a new calisthenics routine designed by Christopher Kidawski.
I do it for the discipline.
Answers how long he cold plunges: 15 to 20 minutes, for the discipline.
I did not waste any time restarting my Miami morning health ritual.
Back in Brickell, immediately restarted his Miami morning health ritual.
I started this week feeling like this guy, and ended it with a big win feeling like me again!
Started the week feeling off, ended it with a win feeling like himself.
Selecting the best quality choices for each category goes a long way towards sustained health, but first comes
Shares a protein-intake cheat sheet credited with his weight-loss progress.
▶ videoShort cold-plunge caption with ice emojis.
Short cold-plunge caption with ice emojis.
That’s so unhealthy!”
Addresses the 2024 warnings that a 40-day water fast would kill him.
The lion’s share of my New Year’s resolutions will be health related, as I look forward to deploying wh
Day 60: completed the 20-day food reintroduction after the 40-day water fast.
I picked up many healthy daily habits while living in Miami this year.
The most significant Miami habit was committing to cold plunges.
Today I began the last seven days of my twenty day re-introduction to food.
Begins the last seven days of the 20-day reintroduction to food.
I have completed the first 10 days of my 20 day re-introduction to food protocol.
Ten days into the 20-day food reintroduction; now in a commensal bacteria phase.
Spent all day slow cooking my first meal in forty-seven days.
Slow-cooked his first meal in forty-seven days: vegetables with beef bone broth.
After a little research and conversation with my health guide, we came to the conclusion that my body was disp
Day 46 of not eating; concludes the body is dispelling heavy metals.
Just completed Day 3 of my 20 day re-entry to food.
Day 3 of the 20-day re-entry; still no food at 43 days and counting.
Well, after sharing with my health professional that this symptom didn’t really go away, he recommended that
Day 4: graduated to organic beef bone broth and fresh OJ; chelation therapy recommended.
Since you guys seem to enjoy my 40-day water only fast journey, I thought I would share a little bit of my exp
Shares what the next 20 days of food reintroduction will look like.
First, a nice healthy glass of fresh squeezed OJ.
Day 40 of the 40-day water-only fast is complete; started with fresh-squeezed OJ.
Day 39: Tomorrow is the last day of my fast!
Day 39: tomorrow is the last day of the fast.
Even though it was just to buy an abundance of oranges and bone broth, I was all smiles!
Day 38: first grocery shopping in six weeks, buying oranges and bone broth.
Ok, I am down to just five and a half days left on my 40-day water only fast.
Five and a half days left on the 40-day water fast; hit a morning milestone.
I hope you all enjoy your Thanksgiving.
Day 33 of the fast; one week to go, with a Thanksgiving note.
Met with my health guide today to receive my **reintroduction to food** **protocol **after I complete Day 40 o
Met his health guide to receive the reintroduction-to-food protocol after Day 40.
I just enjoyed a cold plunge and now I am out for a walk along the beautiful Key Biscayne waterfront.
Back on his morning routine after a week bedridden; cold plunge and Key Biscayne walk.
Instead, I drank my water with Himalayan Seasalt and suffered through it.
Week four of the water-only fast was rough; drank water with Himalayan sea salt.
This is from my liver, gallbladder and kidneys detoxing my health guide says.
Describes detox symptoms from liver, gallbladder, and kidneys during the fast.
▶ videoTraveling while water fasting takes a little more preparation and a lot more willpower.
On traveling while water fasting, especially to an all-inclusive resort.
My daily swim has now surpassed one mile.
Swim distance passes one mile; Day 22 of the water fast done.
Haven’t fit in this shirt in over four year!
Date night with Lori; fits a shirt he has not worn in four years.
All right, I’m on the other side of the halfway point.
Past the halfway point but feeling like he is starting over.
I reached out to my health guy and he surprised me with this answer:
Shares answers his health guide gave to group members fasting questions.
Projections by my health guide is that I will finish around 215 lbs.
Hits the Day 20 halfway mark of the 40-day water fast.
My new goal at the end of my 40-day water fast is to look more like this guy - my Dad.
Wishes his veteran dad happy Veterans Day and wants to look like him post-fast.
For inquiring minds, I confirmed today that the pool I am doing my fitness challenge in is 300 feet long.
Confirms his challenge pool is 300 feet long, Olympic-sized.
Status Report: Completed 15 days of my water only fast.
Status report: 15 days of the water fast, 30 pounds down, Day 10 swimming.
Their highlight each day comes when I brush my teeth and they get to enjoy an explosion of flavor.
Got deep fascia work to fix body aches during the fast.
I realize that the last week I have been posting like crazy in this Group.
Notes he has been posting constantly and credits the water fast mindset.
So, I texted Chris - my health advisor at 6 am.
Describes intense fasting pain and getting guidance from his health advisor at 6am.
Quite a few of you have reached out to me by phone or in your comments to express your concerns that what I am
Responds to friends worried his 40-day water fast is risky.
After my unique cold plunge fitness challenge (started at 5 minutes on Day 1 and added a minute every day for
Recaps a 45-day cold plunge challenge from 5 minutes to 50.
I use to enjoy it immensely.
Completes Day 1 of a swim fitness challenge, one lap after years away.
In all honesty, this is the first physical goal that I have accomplished since my sports playing days in colle
'Cold Plunge Story Part 2 of 2': he hits 50 minutes with hypothermia symptoms, witnessed by a spa attendant.
I was just a ridiculous looking jackass 53 year-old only capable of making a solid cocktail before bed!
Day 34: a former NFL player is impressed by his 34-minute plunge; day 40 is foiled by hot water.
As always, The Voice in My Head has an opinion about this too, but I’ll just let it pass by me like someone’s
His health expert prescribes a 45-day cold plunge protocol building to 50 minutes; his inner voice objects.
I realize that I’m in no rush to do anything next. Total time freedom. Perhaps my greatest achievement as an E
A slow Miami morning ritual of breakfast, cold plunge, waterfront walk, coffee, and The Alchemist.
My legs feel fifteen years younger and the little aches and pains I began to accept as part of aging have disa
Ten days of morning cold plunges have eased his aches and pains dramatically.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
Reports a meniscus tear diagnosis and upcoming surgery as good news: the pain mystery is solved.
my daily knee pain has reduced from a 9 to a 2 in just two one hour table sessions.
Day 1 of the wellness retreat: two hours of fascia work cut his chronic knee pain from a 9 to a 2, no surgery needed.
I believe this will lay a nice wellness foundation for the rest of the year.
Day five of a ten-day lemonade cleanse: down fifteen pounds, feeling great, guided by fitness expert Chris Kidawski.
That problem is permanently over. That chronic contraction is released.
Chris Kidawski's fascia work freed a three-decade locked hip in one 60-minute session.
We often put our health last despite its massive importance to our quality of life.
His 88-year-old mom training at the wellness retreat: how much work can you do from a hospital bed?
Thirty down, thirty to go!
Six-month check-in: 30 pounds down, exactly on pace for 60 this year.
Getting rid of the inflammation that wrapped around my organs has been the really big win.
Passed 25 pounds lost this year, perfectly on pace for 60, despite injury and travel.
Retreats are truly magical in how they accomplish this.
The first Wellness & Weight Loss Retreat closes with new closeness and commitments to change.
But I feel 30 again after these movements!
Assisted fascial maneuvers on his lanai are his new jam — he feels 30 again.
Given we sleep 33% of our lives, it's pretty darn important.
Day 4 journal: sleep hacks — we spend a third of our lives sleeping, so it matters.
Day 5: Happy Worker Outers at Bliss Island
Day 5: happy worker outers at Bliss Island.
Day 3 of our Wellness & Weight Loss Retreat at Bliss Island was explosive.
Day 3 was explosive — mind-bending 'stops' and 'starts'; next retreat is July 9-15.
The most important theme of the day was that food is medicine.
Day 2 journal: food is medicine; learning he is pre-diabetic, not diabetic, means the tide can still turn.
I learned that the body feels, the brain interprets and solves, and fascia provides awareness.
Day 1 journal: fascia is the body's primary communicator and only breath controls it.
Only this time, with a keen eye on making it last.
Launching a new tradition: the first Health & Wellness Retreat at Bliss Island with Christopher J. Kidawski.
Goals are nothing but a guidepost. Commitment is what matters!
Down from 280, aiming for the 250s: goals are guideposts, commitment is what matters.
▶ videoCommits to losing the first five pounds.
Commits to losing the first five pounds.